Mercury Morris

Eugene Edward Morris

Position: RB
Height: 5-10 Weight: 190 lbs.

Born: January 5, 1947 in Pittsburgh, PA
College: West Texas A&M (school history)
Drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the 3rd round (63rd overall) of the 1969 NFL Draft.

Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 49 (1560th overall since 1950)
3-time Pro Bowler (fine print)

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Mercury Morris Career Splits

Output includes all games from 1960 to 2011.

Career Splits

		Games				Rushing						Receiving						Scoring		Kick Returns				Punt Returns
Split	Value	G	W	L	T	Att	Yds	Y/A	TD	A/G	Y/G	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	R/G	Y/G	TD	Pts	Rt	Yds	Y/Rt	TD	Ret	Yds	Y/R	TD
League	NFL	85	63	21	1	781	4023	5.15	30	9.2	47.3	48	478	9.96	1	0.6	5.6	33	198	68	1811	26.63	2	2	-1	-0.50	0
	AFL	14	3	10	1	23	110	4.78	1	1.6	7.9	6	65	10.83	0	0.4	4.6	2	12	43	1136	26.42	1	25	172	6.88	0
Split	Value	G	W	L	T	Att	Yds	Y/A	TD	A/G	Y/G	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	R/G	Y/G	TD	Pts	Rt	Yds	Y/Rt	TD	Ret	Yds	Y/R	TD
Place	Home	50	37	12	1	416	2084	5.01	20	8.3	41.7	34	253	7.44	1	0.7	5.1	22	132	54	1350	25.00	1	10	36	3.60	0
	Road	49	29	19	1	388	2049	5.28	11	7.9	41.8	20	290	14.50	0	0.4	5.9	13	78	57	1597	28.02	2	17	135	7.94	0
Split	Value	G	W	L	T	Att	Yds	Y/A	TD	A/G	Y/G	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	R/G	Y/G	TD	Pts	Rt	Yds	Y/Rt	TD	Ret	Yds	Y/R	TD
Result	Win	66	66	0	0	650	3485	5.36	26	9.8	52.8	31	267	8.61	1	0.5	4.0	28	168	58	1513	26.09	1	5	7	1.40	0
	Loss	31	0	31	0	153	653	4.27	5	4.9	21.1	23	276	12.00	0	0.7	8.9	7	42	50	1351	27.02	2	22	164	7.45	0
	Tie	2	0	0	2	1	-5	-5.00	0	0.5	-2.5	0	0		0	0.0	0.0	0	0	3	83	27.67	0	0	0		0
Split	Value	G	W	L	T	Att	Yds	Y/A	TD	A/G	Y/G	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	R/G	Y/G	TD	Pts	Rt	Yds	Y/Rt	TD	Ret	Yds	Y/R	TD
Final Margin	0-7 points	33	18	13	2	218	901	4.13	7	6.6	27.3	12	97	8.08	0	0.4	2.9	8	48	40	1060	26.50	1	13	117	9.00	0
	8-14 points	23	18	5	0	211	1078	5.11	9	9.2	46.9	11	121	11.00	0	0.5	5.3	9	54	23	577	25.09	0	3	-5	-1.67	0
	15+ points	43	30	13	0	375	2154	5.74	15	8.7	50.1	31	325	10.48	1	0.7	7.6	18	108	48	1310	27.29	2	11	59	5.36	0
Split	Value	G	W	L	T	Att	Yds	Y/A	TD	A/G	Y/G	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	R/G	Y/G	TD	Pts	Rt	Yds	Y/Rt	TD	Ret	Yds	Y/R	TD
Month	September	16	10	5	1	130	738	5.68	7	8.1	46.1	4	57	14.25	0	0.3	3.6	8	48	18	533	29.61	1	3	-17	-5.67	0
	October	31	22	8	1	225	1181	5.25	9	7.3	38.1	12	85	7.08	0	0.4	2.7	9	54	34	891	26.21	0	13	126	9.69	0
	November	32	20	12	0	256	1383	5.40	12	8.0	43.2	22	241	10.95	0	0.7	7.5	12	72	40	929	23.23	0	8	16	2.00	0
	December	20	14	6	0	193	831	4.31	3	9.7	41.6	16	160	10.00	1	0.8	8.0	6	36	19	594	31.26	2	3	46	15.33	0
Split	Value	G	W	L	T	Att	Yds	Y/A	TD	A/G	Y/G	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	R/G	Y/G	TD	Pts	Rt	Yds	Y/Rt	TD	Ret	Yds	Y/R	TD
Day	Sunday	82	54	27	1	662	3541	5.35	29	8.1	43.2	47	481	10.23	0	0.6	5.9	32	192	94	2521	26.82	3	21	185	8.81	0
	Monday	8	7	1	0	87	398	4.57	2	10.9	49.8	4	32	8.00	1	0.5	4.0	3	18	4	94	23.50	0	0	0		0
	Thursday	1	1	0	0	14	49	3.50	0	14.0	49.0	0	0		0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0		0
	Saturday	8	4	3	1	41	145	3.54	0	5.1	18.1	3	30	10.00	0	0.4	3.8	0	0	13	332	25.54	0	6	-14	-2.33	0
Split	Value	G	W	L	T	Att	Yds	Y/A	TD	A/G	Y/G	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	R/G	Y/G	TD	Pts	Rt	Yds	Y/Rt	TD	Ret	Yds	Y/R	TD
Conference	AFC	69	48	20	1	624	3374	5.41	28	9.0	48.9	42	416	9.90	1	0.6	6.0	31	186	48	1344	28.00	2	2	-1	-0.50	0
	NFC	16	15	1	0	157	649	4.13	2	9.8	40.6	6	62	10.33	0	0.4	3.9	2	12	20	467	23.35	0	0	0		0
Split	Value	G	W	L	T	Att	Yds	Y/A	TD	A/G	Y/G	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	R/G	Y/G	TD	Pts	Rt	Yds	Y/Rt	TD	Ret	Yds	Y/R	TD
Division	AFL East	8	2	6	0	14	80	5.71	0	1.8	10.0	6	65	10.83	0	0.8	8.1	0	0	29	657	22.66	0	13	58	4.46	0
	AFL West	6	1	4	1	9	30	3.33	1	1.5	5.0	0	0		0	0.0	0.0	2	12	14	479	34.21	1	12	114	9.50	0
	AFC East	44	35	9	0	435	2543	5.85	24	9.9	57.8	26	287	11.04	0	0.6	6.5	26	156	35	1013	28.94	2	2	-1	-0.50	0
	AFC Central	11	7	4	0	86	370	4.30	1	7.8	33.6	8	70	8.75	1	0.7	6.4	2	12	5	123	24.60	0	0	0		0
	AFC West	14	6	7	1	103	461	4.48	3	7.4	32.9	8	59	7.38	0	0.6	4.2	3	18	8	208	26.00	0	0	0		0
	NFC East	6	5	1	0	77	297	3.86	1	12.8	49.5	2	26	13.00	0	0.3	4.3	1	6	6	142	23.67	0	0	0		0
	NFC Central	5	5	0	0	55	183	3.33	0	11.0	36.6	1	6	6.00	0	0.2	1.2	0	0	6	106	17.67	0	0	0		0
	NFC West	5	5	0	0	25	169	6.76	1	5.0	33.8	3	30	10.00	0	0.6	6.0	1	6	8	219	27.38	0	0	0		0
Split	Value	G	W	L	T	Att	Yds	Y/A	TD	A/G	Y/G	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	R/G	Y/G	TD	Pts	Rt	Yds	Y/Rt	TD	Ret	Yds	Y/R	TD
Opponent	Ari (StL/Chi) Cardinals	2	2	0	0	22	76	3.45	0	11.0	38.0	1	12	12.00	0	0.5	6.0	0	0	1	15	15.00	0	0	0		0
	Atlanta Falcons	1	1	0	0	6	76	12.67	0	6.0	76.0	0	0		0	0.0	0.0	0	0	1	49	49.00	0	0	0		0
	Buffalo Bills	15	14	1	0	143	824	5.76	7	9.5	54.9	5	67	13.40	0	0.3	4.5	7	42	15	425	28.33	0	6	31	5.17	0
	Chicago Bears	2	2	0	0	16	30	1.88	0	8.0	15.0	0	0		0	0.0	0.0	0	0	1	15	15.00	0	0	0		0
	Cincinnati Bengals	3	2	1	0	12	34	2.83	0	4.0	11.3	1	4	4.00	1	0.3	1.3	2	12	3	165	55.00	1	0	0		0
	Cleveland Browns	3	1	2	0	21	137	6.52	0	7.0	45.7	3	47	15.67	0	1.0	15.7	0	0	3	71	23.67	0	0	0		0
	Dallas Cowboys	1	1	0	0	14	49	3.50	0	14.0	49.0	0	0		0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0		0
	Denver Broncos	5	2	2	1	25	66	2.64	0	5.0	13.2	1	7	7.00	0	0.2	1.4	0	0	4	99	24.75	0	1	4	4.00	0
	Green Bay Packers	2	2	0	0	31	125	4.03	0	15.5	62.5	0	0		0	0.0	0.0	0	0	2	15	7.50	0	0	0		0
	Indianapolis (Bal) Colts	11	5	6	0	106	586	5.53	4	9.6	53.3	13	150	11.54	0	1.2	13.6	4	24	11	245	22.27	0	0	0		0
	Kansas City Chiefs	4	2	2	0	28	163	5.82	1	7.0	40.8	2	6	3.00	0	0.5	1.5	1	6	3	103	34.33	0	7	123	17.57	0
	Oakland (LA) Raiders	7	1	5	1	38	172	4.53	3	5.4	24.6	2	24	12.00	0	0.3	3.4	3	18	9	235	26.11	0	2	-13	-6.50	0
	Minnesota Vikings	1	1	0	0	8	28	3.50	0	8.0	28.0	1	6	6.00	0	1.0	6.0	0	0	3	76	25.33	0	0	0		0
	New England Patriots	11	9	2	0	96	689	7.18	7	8.7	62.6	7	76	10.86	0	0.6	6.9	9	54	14	461	32.93	2	3	-14	-4.67	0
	New Orleans Saints	1	1	0	0	11	67	6.09	0	11.0	67.0	3	30	10.00	0	3.0	30.0	0	0	2	60	30.00	0	0	0		0
	New York Giants	1	1	0	0	19	98	5.16	1	19.0	98.0	0	0		0	0.0	0.0	1	6	1	20	20.00	0	0	0		0
	New York Jets	13	9	4	0	100	473	4.73	6	7.7	36.4	6	56	9.33	0	0.5	4.3	6	36	17	413	24.29	0	5	44	8.80	0
	Philadelphia Eagles	2	1	1	0	22	74	3.36	0	11.0	37.0	1	14	14.00	0	0.5	7.0	0	0	4	107	26.75	0	0	0		0
	Pittsburgh Steelers	3	2	1	0	28	96	3.43	0	9.3	32.0	2	2	1.00	0	0.7	0.7	0	0	0	0		0	0	0		0
	San Diego Chargers	3	2	1	0	21	90	4.29	0	7.0	30.0	3	22	7.33	0	1.0	7.3	0	0	4	118	29.50	0	2	0	0.00	0
	San Francisco 49ers	2	2	0	0	8	26	3.25	1	4.0	13.0	0	0		0	0.0	0.0	1	6	3	69	23.00	0	0	0		0
	St. Louis (LA/Cle) Rams	1	1	0	0	0	0		0	0.0	0.0	0	0		0	0.0	0.0	0	0	2	41	20.50	0	0	0		0
	Ten Titans/Hou Oilers	5	2	3	0	29	154	5.31	1	5.8	30.8	3	20	6.67	0	0.6	4.0	1	6	8	145	18.13	0	1	-4	-4.00	0
Split	Value	G	W	L	T	Att	Yds	Y/A	TD	A/G	Y/G	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	R/G	Y/G	TD	Pts	Rt	Yds	Y/Rt	TD	Ret	Yds	Y/R	TD
Playoffs	Total	10	8	2	0	95	440	4.63	1	9.5	44.0	3	9	3.00	0	0.3	0.9	1	6	13	269	20.69	0	0	0		0
	Super Bowl	3	2	1	0	21	68	3.24	0	7.0	22.7	0	0		0	0.0	0.0	0	0	6	123	20.50	0	0	0		0
	Conference Championship	3	3	0	0	31	165	5.32	0	10.3	55.0	1	-6	-6.00	0	0.3	-2.0	0	0	3	64	21.33	0	0	0		0
	Divisional	4	3	1	0	43	207	4.81	1	10.8	51.8	2	15	7.50	0	0.5	3.8	1	6	4	82	20.50	0	0	0		0

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